Opera Explained - An Introduction to...Wagner: Tristan and Isolde

Christopher Cook, Royal Court Orchestra, Leif Segerstam & Royal Swedish Opera Male Chorus

2006-07-25 • Spoken Word

Tracklist

• 1
  Background: "Since I Have Never In My Life..."
  3:28
• 2
  Background: When Richard Wagner Began to Compose Tristan und Isolde
  6:11
• 3
  Background: The Music of Lohengrin
  5:20
• 4
  Composition: Tristan's Sailor Looks to the Horizon for Cornwall
  3:46
• 5
  Composition: The Prose Sketch for Tristan und Isolde
  5:53
• 6
  Composition: for the First and Only Time...
  5:10
• 7
  Composition: Wagner's Most Beautiful of Dreams
  6:33
• 8
  The Opera: Tristan Und Isolde Was Never Intended to Be...
  7:19
• 9
  The Opera: Isolde, However, Rails Against Tristan
  6:05
• 10
  The Opera: Act II Takes Place at Night
  7:20
• 11
  The Opera: Then, for a Second Time in the Opera
  6:08
• 12
  The Opera: Before the Start of the Third Act
  6:25
• 13
  The Opera: Tristan Begins to Rave Again...
  3:39
• 14
  The Opera: The Shepherd Boy Pipes Another...
  6:14